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...Habitants" are barely .500 this season, and scalpers have had to settle for face value. But I'm certain a little bit of that old-time hockey religion rubbed off on me as le bleu, blanc et rouge (or le tricoleur, les glorieuses, or whatever else they call their team here) dumped on some losers from Detroit...
...some time to come. The good news is echoed in retailers' ads across the U.S. "The most dramatic wine sale in Burka's history!" trumpets a Washington, D.C., wine store. "French champagnes below wholesale!" announces Manhattan's Sherry-Lehmann, whose bargains include a Maxim's Blanc de Blancs '73 Brut reduced from $70 to $39.95. "This is the age of Aquarius for wine drinkers," says Carlo Kendrick, wine manager at Washington's Sutton Place Gourmet. "The economy is going up and prices are going down. It's a fool's paradise...
...been producing excellent vintages in quantity, particularly red wines and brisk, clean sparkling wines that sell for a fraction of the price of French champagne. One of the first to attract American attention was Codorniu; the 1981 Brut Classico sells for $4.99. An outstanding example is Paul Cheneau Blanc de Blancs Brut, from Barcelona, which now costs only...
...praise many premium wines that cost less than $5 a bottle. Today there is a profusion of good vintages in this price range. (All wine prices vary from city to city, week to week.) Some Beaujolais bottlings have been reduced by $2, to $4.99. A 1982 Domaine de Cheval Blanc, a pleasant white Bordeaux, costs under $4. La Vieille Ferme '81, a satisfying red or white from the Rhone Valley, is now $3.49. Burka's store in Washington offers a 1981 Verdillac Bordeaux Superior for $3.49 a bottle, and a free wine rack goes with each case...
Among California wines, the noble varietals of Robert Mondavi have been discounted, from the superb Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve '78, down from more than $60, to $49.50 a magnum, to the pleasant Fume Blanc, at $6.50 (down from $8.50). The competition has also been fierce among domestic jug wines produced by such firms as Gallo, Almaden, Inglenook and Paul Masson, some of which have cut as much as $2 from the cost of their three-liter bottles. The serious wine collector can find remarkable bargains among prestigious Bordeaux and Burgundies, as well as vintages from lesser-known petits chateaux that...